Japanese scholar Takagi Toshio's "Comparative Mythology" (1904) identified the Chinese Pangu myth as a derivative of the ancient Indian bet365 offer myth that spread to China，Although this view is controversial, it has been widely accepted by domestic and foreign mythology circles for a certain period of time，Many foreign scholars believe that ancient China was the only ancient civilization that did not have a bet365 offer myth。But academic research in the past 30 years has revealed that，The Chinese nation had multiple bet365 offer myths in ancient times，It’s just fragmented and historicized in later generations。Ye Shuxian's "Chinese Mythology and Philosophy" restores 6 bet365 offer myths based on classical materials，Yuan Wenqing、Dong Chuping、Chen Shipeng and others revealed that the content of Chapter A of the Chu Silk Book is a bet365 offer myth。The author also focused on the bet365 offer myth of Gun and Yu、The bet365 offer Myth of Emperor Jun、Chu Silk Book bet365 offer Myth、Pangu bet365 offer myth, etc.。Tao Yang、Zhong Xiu has collected information on bet365 offer myths of more than 50 ethnic groups in China in books such as "Chinese bet365 offer Myths" and "Chinese Myths"。Therefore some scholars believe that，Chinese mythology, including bet365 offer myths, and ancient Greek mythology、Egyptian Mythology、Roman mythology、Hebrew mythology、Comparison of Indian Mythology，Not inferior" (Qian Mingzi's "Chinese Mythology Preface")。It can be seen from this，Chinese scholars have restored and discovered multiple bet365 offer myths on the basis of，Committed to studying broader academic and cultural issues，One is the type of ancient bet365 offer myths。

　　The subject of bet365 offer is the ancestor god of a specific ethnic group

Studying the types of bet365 offer myths can not only understand the main body and story composition characteristics of a nation’s bet365 offer myths，You can also get a glimpse of the cultural characteristics and spirit contained in it，Therefore, it has attracted long-term attention from the mythological circles at home and abroad。"Comparative Mythology" by Toshio Takagi、"Introduction to Mythology" by Tailiang Obayashi、L. Spence's "Introduction to Mythology"、There are related studies in "The New Encyclopedia Britannica" and so on，Among them, the five types summarized in the entry "bet365 offer Myth Types and Theories" in the "New Encyclopedia Britannica" have the most widespread influence。Chinese scholar Ye Shuxian、Wang Zhaoxian、Ma Xueliang、Xiang Baisong and others，Also has its own multiple categories。Among them，Ye Shuxian's "Chinese Mythology and Philosophy" further divides the "bet365 offer of Cosmic Egg" category in the "New Encyclopedia Britannica" into two types: "oviparous type" and "zombie type"，And use these six types to reconstruct ancient Chinese bet365 offer myths，This view has the greatest influence。

　Overall，There is a tendency for scholars to classify more and more finely。This shows the diversity of ancient Chinese bet365 offer myths，Its academic value is beyond doubt。The question that the author intends to further explore is: if the ancient bet365 offer myth really contains the early cultural prototypes and characteristics of the Chinese nation，Then does it have common type characteristics that transcend each subdivision type？The answer is yes。

From the perspective of the subject of bet365 offer，The bet365 offer myths of ancient China do have a variety of subdivided type characteristics，But they also have a common type characteristic，That is, the main body of all bet365 offer myths，They are all bet365 offer gods and specific ethnic groups (clan、Tribe、ethnic group、Nations, etc.) The unified form of the ancestors and gods。Based on this characteristic，The author named it "World Ancestor Myth" or "Ancestral bet365 offer Myth"。

Dalin Tailiang according to the "Book of Mountains and Seas" "Gun stole the emperor's land and flooded it" and other records，The Gun-Yu flood myth is identified as originally a bet365 offer myth of the "land-building type" (land diving type) (Da Lin Tailiang's "Introduction to Mythology")。Chinese scholar Ye Shuxian、Hu Wanchuan、Lu Wei and others have accepted this type of identification。But in the pre-Qin classics，The bet365 offer myth of the Xia people does not only involve "Gun stole the soil of the Emperor of Heaven and was killed"，Also involving Gun、Yu、Start、Tushanshi、Gonggong and many other subjects and rich stories，So its type may be far more complicated than the "scraping mud to create land"。What’s more important is that Xia Hou’s family “surrounded Gun and Zong Yu” (Guoyu)，The main body of the Xia people’s bet365 offer myth (Gun、Yu、Qi) are all Xia people’s ancestral gods。So no matter what type the Xia people’s bet365 offer myths are divided into，From the perspective of the main body of the myth, it is more accurate to confirm that it is an ancestral bet365 offer myth (for details, please see Zhang Kaiyan's "Ancestral Myths of the World—A Study on the Origin and Narrative Types of Ancient Chinese bet365 offer Myths")。

The businessman’s bet365 offer myth has not attracted enough attention from the academic community。See now about Emperor Jun (勋) marrying Xihe、The myth of Chang Xi giving birth to 10 suns and 12 moons，The myth about Emperor Jun’s descendants (Si You) becoming the rulers of the underworld，About Emperor Ku Gaoxin (a derivative of Emperor Jun) whose son is the two stars of Ginseng and Shang in the sky、The myth of marrying the wives of the four gods and giving birth to the "eight yuan" of the gods，Myths about the ancestors of various ethnic groups in the human world，About the ten-day merger、The myth of the evil beasts wreaking havoc on the world and the emperor ordered the gods to shoot down for nine days to punish the evil beasts and quell the disaster，They are all telling where the sun, moon and stars came from、Where do the gods come from、Where did the ancestors of various human groups come from、The story of a cosmic catastrophe and its recovery，It is an important component of the bet365 offer myth of any nation。So it is certain that businessmen have bet365 offer myths，The protagonist of this bet365 offer myth, Emperor Jun (夋), is the divine ancestor worshiped by merchants who appears repeatedly in oracle bone inscriptions，Its type is also an ancestral bet365 offer myth。

Zhou people did not believe in ghosts and gods in history，There seems to be no bet365 offer myth。But at least in the late Spring and Autumn Period, myths and legends of Yan and Huang appeared，"Guoyu" states that Yan and Huang have the surname Jiang Ji，So they are actually designated as the ancestral gods of the Jiang and Ji tribes, the two major tribal alliance groups of the Zhou people。Scholars such as Yuan Ke and Ye Shuxian believe that，The fable about the chaos of the "Central Emperor" in "Zhuangzi"，Should be derived from the earlier chaos bet365 offer myth。And this chaos (Hundun) corresponds to the central Yellow Emperor in the Five Directions and Ten Gods system of the Warring States Period，Therefore the Yellow Emperor is the great god of chaos。If this bet365 offer myth is true，There is no doubt that he belongs to Zhou Dynasty。The highest bet365 offer god Huangdi is the ancestor god of a specific ethnic group (Ji tribe)，It is certain that it is an ancestral bet365 offer myth。

The bet365 offer myth of Chapter A of the Chu Silk Book has been confirmed in the past 20 years。It tells the story of Fuxi marrying Nuwa and giving birth to four sons，Four sons lead Yu、The story of Qi and others creating the world。This is the most complete and clear pre-Qin bet365 offer myth recorded in writing so far。The first sentence of Chapter A of the Chu Silk Book is "The old bear hail opera..."。The "hail opera" is Fuxi，“Xiong” is the name of the King of Chu，Therefore, all Chu kings were given the title "Xiong"。Obviously，Fuxi in this myth is the ancestor of the Chu people，So it is also a myth about the bet365 offer of the world。The bet365 offer gods are all ancestor gods of a specific ethnic group，This is the common feature of the above bet365 offer myths，So they are all world ancestor myths，Or the type of ancestral bet365 offer myth。

　Has distinctive bet365 offer cultural characteristics

The above-mentioned ancestral bet365 offer myths have the following common characteristics: First，They were created by different ethnic groups in ancient China，Therefore, every important ethnic group in ancient China had a bet365 offer myth。The main god of all bet365 offer myths is also the ancestor god of a specific ethnic group，It is the unity of the Creator God and the Ancestor God。With Greece、Hebrew God and man have different bet365 offer gods，These bet365 offer gods are both gods and humans，It is a god or a human god。Contemporary mythologists regard him as a mythical figure，Historians regard him as a historical figure，Everyone has a certain truth，But they failed to take into account the characteristics of both humans and gods。The ancient Chinese mythology composed of this as the core，Has the characteristics of a kind of divine history ("divine history")。This is an important difference between ancient Chinese mythology and Western mythos (fictional stories of gods)。These myths have fictional characteristics，There are also some real historical elements。Because of its divine history characteristics，Personal affairs that are gradually transformed into real existence by history in the process of spreading the story。

Second，Many ancient Chinese bet365 offer myths have the following common elements in story structure: The world originated from a state of chaos—the bet365 offer god (the ancestor of a specific ethnic group) was born from a state of chaos—they (or their descendants) started and completed the world bet365 offer - a disaster occurs in the world - the bet365 offer spirit (or his descendants) calms down the disaster and completes the second bet365 offer。The above process may be reflected in natural forms (such as the myth of Chu silk script)，Or manifested through the reproductive relationships and conflicts of the gods。

　Third，Western philosopher Cassirer's "On Man" stated that the only quasi-religious consciousness in ancient China was the consciousness of ancestor worship，This statement may not be absolutely accurate (the consciousness of nature worship in ancient China was also very prominent)，But it is indeed an insight。The blood-line patriarchal emotion with ancestor worship as the core、Consciousness and system，Is the foundation of ancient Chinese society。The consciousness of ancestor worship is reflected in all aspects of ancient Chinese culture and society，bet365 offer myths of the ancestors of ancient Chinese tribes，It is a prominent manifestation of the ancestor worship consciousness of the Chinese ethnic groups。

　Fourth，The historical process of the integration and unification of various ethnic groups in ancient China，It is also accompanied by the process of integration of Chinese ethnic groups and gods at the ideological level。This process is led by the ruler group at each stage，Therefore, it is an inevitable choice to use the ancestor gods of this ethnic group’s bet365 offer myth to unify the gods of other ethnic groups。So Gun Yu, the ancestor of the Xia people, became the merchant god Kuang (Jun in "Shang Shu"、喾、Successor of Shun，Later, in "Guoyu", "Shan Hai Jing", "Shiben" and "Historical Records", the ancestors of Xia, Shang and various ethnic groups became the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of the Zhou people，There are as many as 25 branches with Huangdi as the ancestor god。And in the myth of Chu silk script，Fuxi has become the coordinate to unify the gods of Xia, Shang and Zhou，In the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang was from Chu，Therefore, Fuxi gradually became the divine ancestor of all Chinese races in the process of ideological integration，The ancestral gods of all the clans that came first were integrated into the Fuxi lineage，Or become one with it，Or directly or indirectly become his descendants and subordinates。Therefore, the relationship between the gods in ancient China has the characteristics of "layered divine history"。

By the way pointed out，Influenced by the collective unconsciousness of ancestor worship，Even if foreign myths enter China，Familiarization will also occur、Ancestralization phenomenon。The bet365 offer myth of Pangu is an obvious example。Academic circles have long debated the issue of whether the Pangu myth originated from local or foreign sources，In fact, what deserves more attention is the process of clanization of Pangu’s image in later generations。Pangu written by Wu Guoxu during the Three Kingdoms period was a lonely giant in the universe，No home, no room、No clan, no group，It is indeed similar to the main characteristics of the Indian Bursha bet365 offer myth。But later in the "Pillow Book" written by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty，Pangu married the jade girl of Taiyuan，The Emperor of Heaven, Earth and Humans and the ancestors of all previous Chinese ethnic groups such as Fuxi、Shen Nong、Zhu Rong and others are his descendants，Pangu became the ancestral god of all ethnic groups in China for eternity。In later ancient books and oral legends of various ethnic groups，Pangudu continues to be transformed into clans and ancestors。It is said that there is Pangu Temple in Guilin，There is Pangu Kingdom in the South China Sea，Everyone in his country has the surname Pangu。The humanoid bet365 offer giant Pangu in Xu Zheng's "Three and Five Calories" also appears as a "dragon head and human body" in some later classics (the dragon is the divine totem of all Chinese tribes)。It is also said that Pangu became the ancestor god of many ethnic groups in the southwest，He even intentionally mixes it with the ancestral god of his clan (for example, Panhu and Pangu are collectively called Panwang)。These are all typical examples of the deep influence of the collective unconscious of ancestor worship。

　Like China and Babylon、Egypt、India、Hebrew、Comparison of ancient bet365 offer myths of several ancient nations such as Greece，You will find that the creator god is also the ancestor god of a specific ethnic group，This is an important feature of ancient Chinese bet365 offer myths。Whether it is the Sumerian-Babylonian Enlightenment、Tiamat、Apsu，Atum-Ra of Egypt，Still the Brahma of India、Prajna Prajapati、Bourchard，Or Hebrew Yahweh and Greek Chaos、Gaia、Ouranos and others，None of these bet365 offer gods are the ancestral gods of any specific human group，No one has the characteristics of both human and god。The bet365 offer myths of these peoples，They can all be classified into one of the five types in the entry "Types and Doctrine of bet365 offer Myths" in "The New Encyclopedia Britannica"。However, the bet365 offer god in ancient Chinese bet365 offer myths has the main characteristic of the ancestor god of a specific ethnic group，No accurate expression can be obtained in any of these five types。This also shows，Today’s mythology researchers need to think more comprehensively and deeply about the classification of human bet365 offer myths。

(This article is a phased result bet365 offer National Social Science Fund’s major bidding project “Comparative Research on Chinese and Western Narrative Traditions” (16ZDA195)

(Author’s unit: Xiamen University Jiageng College)